That's just your 'opinion' ain't it?
Sensationally posting it as anything that is being said on these forums is a lie in my opinion. Nobody I am aware of is saying SF have a magic bullet or will make everyone happy or will fix Ireland.
You'll get accused of whataboutery but it is a legitimate question about the level of hypocrisy. The people who made the decisions here that resulted in similar figures are still in office. Are they deemed incompetent's and unfit to be in government?
Not expecting anyone to answer that tbh.
It's a lie we hear time and again. 'Utopia' and the like. FF/FG are so bad people just want a government party working in the right direction ffs.
No, the British. There's a whole thing about it. People trying to say SF are responsible for what goes on up there are either liars or not informed at all. They play a part, sure.
FF/FG blamed the public when Ireland was worse in the world.
They are indeed lies when you and others falsely try pass them off as statements. You need to start using language like 'in my opinion' 😎
Nobody has said any of the FF/FG problems will be easy to solve.
One unded an eeeeeighty
Hmmmmm …… folk seem to be getting a bit rattled.
Lot of anger……… not good.
Sinn Fein holding steady in the north on 25% of the vote, with neither the SDLP or the Alliance able to make inroads.
Alliance falling 3% must be a slap in the face for the new/third identity believers.
SF 25% (no change)
UUP 16% (+2)
TUV 14% (+3)
DUP 13% (-3 from May)
Alliance 13% (-3)
SDLP 13% (+1)
TBH in the interests of the island it's good to see the pro GFA/Protocol vote not fracturing.
Whats this stuff all about.
Do we want people like this running our country?
She was carrying on like ffg do down here as regards running stuff for her & friends
Sinn fein are dead in derry for likely half a generation and need to build trust back among community and start from ground up (as it should be)
,days after lyra mckee got killed,a dissident still got elected,should sent alarm bells ringing....someone has to grasp the nettle of reform at some stage.....she has plenty to offer on ground canvassing/directing elections locally imo
Not nice people.
We don’t want that lot at the levers of power down here.
Would be a complete disaster, wasters charter, in my opinion.
How is being a waster to stand upto people carrying on like ffg?
I dont think,corruption cronism and arrogance has any place in public service....but thats just me,i guess
I don’t think the whiff of cordite has any place in a ‘political’ party….but that’s just me, I guess.
Meh.....all the main parties here have this in their background,from.what i see anyway
Polls, polls, polls, do folks still give them any serious credit, giving how in my opinion, a lot of them can be engineered to one side or another. A nod to 'Yes Minister' the TV show.
Getting rid of the likes of Anderson is a positive step for SF to be honest.
IMO Anderson was, politically, an empty shirt. Certainly any time she was on the TV for election commentary she was out of her depth. She had nothing going for her other than the fact that she did time.
Can't read the article, it's paywalled.
Looked at the back and forth on Twitter, and while it is a sacking, etc etc, not sure how it is different to how it is to other sackings or removal from parties. Where's the 'whiff of cordite'?
Yes folks still give them credit.
Not to forget, both FF and FG had fake pollsters conducting polls that they obviously gave some credit to, or they wouldn't have bothered doing so.
SF used the fake pollsters too, no?
Sinn Féin used fake pollsters less than two years ago despite denial - Independent.ie
Yes indeed they did, but SF are the main beneficiaries from this poll, with (ok, assumedly) FF/FG posters trying to dismiss polls that see SF sit at the top of them, with "does anyone take polls seriously" remarks.
The answer is - obviously they do, you have articles about party's being worried about unfavorable polling results, and nearly all of them (certainly the big players) being caught up in the fake pollsters story's.
SF certainly give the impression that they will fix Ireland, and some of the posters on here claim that a united Ireland will be a land of honey and milk with unicorns and rainbows where every problem will be solved and that we should stop worrying about the cost.
So the unionist minority is now at 43% while the nationalist minority is at 25%.
If you told the truth maybe you would start affecting those polling numbers you keep claiming will reach a ceiling or plummet.
Good to see you shied away from the -3 Alliance result. Has the much vaunted NI Identity reached it's ceiling or are 'lent' votes returning home?
When did the SDLP stop being a nationalist party blanch152?
Also, interestingly I witnessed many unionists on social media over the weekend claiming Alliance as a "unionist party" now because it suits them to try and boost numbers, yet they were claiming they were nationalist/republicans a short while ago because it suited them then too.
The partitionist/unionist/loyalist mindset has always used the Alliance to their own ends.
That's some odd mathematics, Blanch.
What do you make of the Alliance fall Fionn?
TBH I was expecting it to be +3from an influx of more disgruntled Unionists.
For Assembly elections, Alliance will do well on transfers. I think they'll return a significant growth in absolute seat numbers in Stormont, even if their first preference vote isn't as high as predicted in some circles.
Doug Beattie is pulling in a lot of the votes leaking from more moderate DUP voters who still think Alliance are a bit too taigy for their liking. Predictions that the DUP vote would essentially split in half, one group going hardline TUV and the others all going APNI just demonstrate a fundamental misunderstanding of NI. Their first preference growth will be more of a gradual increase rather than landsliding into the biggest party in the place.
Sure listening to the way that Mallon and Hume have been criticised and disowned by republicans over the years, I was sure the diehards had given up on them. Don't they say that a border poll should be the last thing on the table.
Their first preference growth will be more of a gradual increase rather than landsliding into the biggest party in the place.
Who are you talking about there, the TUV or Alliance?
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